“On the night of Thursday the 27th and early on Friday, Internet access and mobile service were switched off. Without such means of communication, how would a city of 8 million people know when and where to meet?

Nicknamed the city of a thousand minarets, Cairo itself offered protesters a thousand places to meet at a weekly specified time. Midday prayer on Friday, a grassroots organizer’s dream, required no text message or Facebook event pages. And so it was in Cairo’s mosques—some of which predate the Ottoman era—where the fourth “Day of Anger” began.”

“Leipzig had a clearly defined city center consisting of Karl-Marx-Platz and its adjacent streets. If one wanted to meet someone without an appointment, one would just go there. At what time would people go? Leipzig citizens knew that peace prayers took place every Monday from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Nikolai Kirche, which is close to the Karl-Marx-Platz. The citizens knew about the peace prayers through word-of-mouth communication and the Western media. It was also well known that at least some of those individuals attending the peace prayers would go to Karl-Marx-Platz after the prayer service. Citizens of Leipzig also knew that those attending the peace prayers were critical citizens. Thus, if people who were critical of the SED regime wanted to meet up with like-minded individual, they would either attend the peace prayers on Mondays or go near the Nikolai Kirche at about 6 p.m.” (198)